Check-valve.



No. 822,077. PATENTED MAY 29 1906.

G. W. RICH. I

CHECK VALVE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT15.1905

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PATENTED MAY 29, 1906.

G. W. RICH.

CHECK VALVE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT, 5. 1905.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 29. 1906.

Application filed September 5, 1905- Serial No. 277,079.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. RICH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Memphis, in the county of Shelby and State of Tennessee, have invented new and useful Improvements in Check-Valves, of which the following is a specification.

Thisinvention has relation to check-valves for use wherever it may be found convenient to employ them. As here shown, the valve is particularly adapted for use on steamboilers in connection with the feed-water or other appliances.

It is the object of the invention to provide completely simple and practical me ans whereby the main valve may round when desiredwhile full steam is in the oiler. Where it has heretofore been proposcdto do this, so far as I am aware, it has een attended with more or less difficulty because of the means surrounding the placement of the valves. I

The drawings hereto annexed form a part of this specification and are to be referred to as such and as showing the structure defined in the subjoined claims.

Of the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation'of the valve. Fig. 2'is a central sectional view of the invention and associated devices, some of the parts for the sake of clearness of illustration being represented in elevation. Fig. 3 is a bottom view of one of the wing-valves. Fig. 4 is a modified ar rangementof valves embodying the improvernents.

In the'drawings, a designates a casing provided with an extension or stem 1), the outer end of which is threaded, as at c, to enable it to be screwed into a boiler to the extent of the annular groove (1.

eand f are wing-valves, each of which is respectively adapted to operate in a con ection 9 h, and each connection is provided for the respective valves.

'i designates a stem tapped through a stuffing-box j in the top of the casing a directly over the center of the valve 6, so that by turning down the stem 4) through the .medium of its handle 1 the valve 6 will be pressed and held steam-tight on its seat, so as to enable the connection or section It to be unscrewed and the main valve f taken outand reground or re 7 structure and would be removed and retion, a stuffing-box in the aired orto be replaced by another. When t 's last-mentioned work is done, the connection it with the valve in place therein may be screwed on the connection or section g, turned u to itsf'ormerposition, when the valves W1 1 be free to act in the performance I of the office of an ordinary checkavalveu The chief points of advantage and desirability reside in the simplicity of the structhe stem i unscrewed or ture and the readiness with which the parts may be manipulated. I therefore regard each element or part of importance in the depart therefrom only in so far as it may come within the scope of a skilledinechanic. For example, as shown in Fig. 4, the valves are of S11 htly different shape or form, so as to allow the top valve to be inserted from the to and the bottom valve from the bottom; ut the principle is the same.

I claim- .1 A check-valve for the purposes set forth embodying in its construction a casing provided with ascreW thIeaded stem, two connotions, each provided with a valve-seat, one connection being adapted to be screwed into the casing and the other adapted to be attached to the first named screw-threaded means, a wing-valve seate in each conneccasing over the center of the up er valve, a stem extended through said stu 'ng-box and a handle on the outer end of the said stem toenable it to be turned down on the up down to a steam-tight egree upon its seat.

2. A check-valve for the purposes set forth embodying in its construction a casing provided with a screw-threaded stem, two'con nections, each provided with a valve-seat, one connection being adapted to be screwed into the casing and the other adapted to be attached to the first named by screw-threaded means, awing-valveseate'd in each connection, a stuffing-box in the casing over the center of the upper valve, and means extended through said stuffing-box and adapter valve and press it ed to act u on the valve therebelow to press it down an hold it upon its seat.

3. A check-valve comprising a casing, means for securing the casing to a steamboiler, two connections each providedwith a valve-seat, and a wing-valve seated in each connection, in combination with means for rigidly upon its seatimd permittingthelower securing one valve rigidly upon its seat. valve and its conneotion to'be removd, 1o 4. A cheokwalve comprising a casing. In testimony whereof I affix my signature means for securing the casing to a steamin presence of two subscribin witnesses. boiler, two connections each provided with a GEQRG W. RICH. valve-seat, and a Wing-valve seated in each Witnesses; connection, one above the other, in combina- S. L. Common} t n with means for securing the upper valve OiiAs. LOVEJOY 

